The Dangers of Familiar Narratives

“There are two ways to make a revolution, One can fire at the opponent with machine guns until he recognizes the superiority of those who have the machine guns. That is the simplest way. One can also transform a nation through a revolution of the spirit, not destroying the opponent, but winning him over. We National Socialists have gone the second way and will continue on it. Our first task in this ministry will be to win the whole people for the new state. We want to replace liberal thinking with a sense of community that includes the whole people.”

“The Propaganda Ministry is not [a] bureaucratic administrative apparatus, but rather an spiritual center of power that stays in constant touch with the whole people on political, spiritual, cultural, and economic matters. It is the mouth and ear of the Reich government.”

We can attribute the first quote to Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda who, in 1934, was being interviewed by Hans Fritzsche, a leading Nazi radio broadcaster; the second quote, by Fritzshe, follows that of Goebbels in the transcript of the original broadcast. Oddly common to Goebbels line of thinking, to that of the itinerant subversion of todays Cancel Culture, is a playful form of cruelty, the seemingly rational approach in the manner in which these methods affect the deliberate deconstruction of an entire nation:

  • “…transform a nation through a revolution of the spirit….”

 

  • “…replace liberal thinking with a sense of community….”

How promising these narratives appear yet in truth, as history repeatedly shows time and time again, how easily the seeds of desperation take control and wildly breed desperate thoughts and depraved actions.

When a People detach themselves from a morality-based construct they return to the instinctual realm of the animal-code, a system where the behavioral order oscillates between the “adaptation to” and/or the “adoption of” various impulses or the conditions relating to them, a veritable stew of impulse driven behavioral related crisis inevitably follow.

Of course, many will argue that morality is purely subjective and merely the biproduct of yet another version of Man’s divisiveness and to some extent, given that Mankind inevitably attempts to define the unknown or unknowable into a construct he can manage or use as a tool for management, I confess I am able, though purely on a clinical basis only, to accommodate this line of thinking.

Nonetheless, while I’ve struggled for decades to find an alternative where the frailty of Our Inner Compass is more positively transformed, than when affixed to the ideals of a higher purpose, it remains an absolute certainty that Man is never more noble than when engaged in the struggle of perfecting the ideal; even when we fail it must never be forgotten that it is in the effort applied that we discover the purifying comfort of resolve.

So very disappointing that the echoes of these torturous patterns continue to reverberate within and about the very nation that fought to end the brutality these now familiar narratives produced. Yes, unfortunate as it is we have yet to succeed in severing the weight of mankind’s lower ambitions, his diminished capacities, from his more promising aspirations. One day, one day we will.

“Even when we fail it must never be forgotten that it is in the effort applied that we discover the purifying comfort of resolve.”

Curtis C. Greco, Founder

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